h3. [Download SmartOS (VMWare VM)|https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.bz2] {info:title=disk selection in VMware}Do not use the first disk presented during disk selection (c0t0d0). This is the boot media and overwriting it will make the machine not boot anymore.{info}

Once you've downloaded a build, please read the&nbsp;[DOC:Getting Started with SmartOS] guide for information on getting up to speed quickly and refer to one of the following pages&nbsp;applicable&nbsp;to your&nbsp;preferred&nbsp;installation type:

There is a new build, on average, every 2 weeks. SmartOS builds do not have a version number, rather they have a timestamp in the form: 20120809T221258Z (in this example, the date is: 08/09/2012 at 22:12:58 UTC)

For any given build, there will be 5 files available:

* *platform\-*{*}_(timestamp)_{*}*.tgz*: The raw kernel and boot_archive; this is most commonly used for PXE booting * *smartos\-*{*}_(timestamp)_{*}*.iso*: Live Image ISO * *smartos\-*{*}_(timestamp)_{*}*\-usb.img.bz2*: Live Image USB image (This is the preferred installation method) * *smartos\-*{*}_(timestamp)_{*}*.vmwarevm.tar.bz2*: VMware Image (VMX Format) _+\- Please Note\!&nbsp; KVM is not supported under VMware; Zones-Only.+_ * *SINGLE_USER_ROOT_PASSWORD.*{*}_(timestamp)_{*}*.txt*: Contains the default root password for the live image (needed only when booting without mounting the zpool)

For a full list of changes in each build, please refer to the [DOC:SmartOS Change Log].

h2. Accessing the Source

SmartOS source is freely available and can be accessed on [Github.|https://github.com/joyent/]

For more information on SmartOS Development, please refer to the [DOC:SmartOS Developers Guide].